#go get vaccinated

[temmysilver]

What a cute little joy

[halorvic]

[oifaaa]

I have a fun new game I'm playing where anytime I find out something good a vaccine has done I share that news with my deeply anti vax mother I know it won't change her mind but it makes me happy anyway today I learned that the HPV vaccination programme the UK started in 2008 has managed to cut down the amount of cervical cancer cases by 90% in England

[cosmicaces]

let's talk about pino!

according to the whm booklet, rody's quirk is always active. she isn't always present, though. from what we can see in the movie, pino primarily nests in rody's hair!

so... is there a trend?

obviously she hops out when a strong emotion flares up, but it seems like she's also more likely to be out and about when he's feeling relatively safe/comfortable? she's present when he says goodbye to his siblings, she's present when they're settling down for that first night on the run, she's present when they're in the hotel, etc. etc.

there are only a few times where pino is present during an action scene. the first instance is, of course, during the first chase scene when she flew out to stop deku. she briefly remained out, notifying rody that they were still being chased before disappearing. she appears again when he's going down the rail, disappears, and then comes out of his hair again to check on him after he was almost crushed by falling debris.

pino was not present during the attempted betrayal. after leading deku to him, we can presume that, offscreen, she returned to his hair or went into his hood. the next time she comes out is when rody finally warms up to deku in the cave scene.

it's also worth noting that she is not present during the following villain encounter, only coming out for introductions when their safety was guaranteed.

honestly, the only time we actually see pino in harm's way is during the battle with flect, and that was because rody relied on her to not only signal deku, but to catch the flash drive.

why am i talking about this? well, and this is a far-fetched assumption that's going to get into more headcanon/character interpretation territory, but hear me out:

pino is very similar to something from another property: the daemons from his dark materials. for anyone unaware: daemons are the physical manifestation of a person's soul and take the form of an animal. they mirror the way their human interacts with others and can provide emotional insight into how their human is feeling, which is... like i said before, VERY similar to how pino functions.

with this in mind, one has to wonder if their similarities end there or if, potentially, pino shares some other functionalities as a daemon. namely... if pino gets hurt, can rody feel it?

i know that her main function as a quirk is to articulate rody's feelings. still, her tendency to stay out of harm's way really makes you think, especially since we don't see her get injured at any point. little roughed up, sure! but not injured.

[queensnarf]

Fun extra tidbit of info: Measles really does erase the immune system in humans, it's not just in monkeys. It's a form of pathogenesis called Immune Amnesia, and it wipes your memory cells (specifically your B and T lymphocytes) of any adaptive immunity gained from other viruses and pathogens. So if you have caught a virus in the past, you are susceptible to catching it again after catching measles. This was a lesser known symptom of a virus that was previously assumed to only affect the respiratory tract. Even the rash that measles causes is because it infects the immune cells present in the epidermis.

This kind of "unknown" symptom is present in any severely dangerous virus. There will always be dangerous symptoms to a virus that you would not expect it to be associated with.

Polio, despite being know for its damage to the nervous system that causes paralysis and severe tetany of the body, is a disease of the gastrointestinal tract.

Mumps, a virus that causes parotitis, or an infection of the salivary glands, can cause pancreatitis.

It's true of COVID too! An upper respiratory disease is causing people to lose their sense of taste and smell, as well as other bizarre side effects brought on by long COVID.

The point of this little addition is that EVERYTHING IS CONNECTED. Even if you think a virus won't affect another unrelated part of the body, you're wrong. It can and will hit you everywhere, even if it is not abundantly visible to you. That is why YOU MUST GET VACCINATED.

So the next time you forget your flu shot and you're suddenly mentally exhausted for months on end, you know what happened.

Back in the 1960s, the U.S. started vaccinating kids for measles. As expected, children stopped getting measles.

But something else happened.

Childhood deaths from all infectious diseases plummeted. Even deaths from diseases like pneumonia and diarrhea were cut by half.

“So it’s really been a mystery — why do children stop dying at such high rates from all these different infections following introduction of the measles vaccine,” says Michael Mina, a postdoc in biology at Princeton University and a medical student at Emory University.

Scientists Crack A 50-Year-Old Mystery About The Measles Vaccine Photo credit: Photofusion/UIG via Getty Images

[bougiebutchbinch]

so nearly done with the next chapter of the transfemme wade fic!

[britney-rosberg06]

the truth is that mercedes is gonna have the best driver line up entertainment-wise next year because who doesn’t want to see George Russell try to wrangle a semi-feral teenager???

[youwillfindilluminating]

oh... that's why laura said she was gonna cry when sam came out on stage at the greek

[icantalk710]

Why make it hard when you can make it easy (take it easy, take, take it easy) 🚿

[I was feeling my roomie's lighting setting for this shower before a social I'm already fashionably late for welp]

[puppyeared]

man

[mando-abs]

This!!!!! But I also want to stress the idea of practicing safe sex and getting testing with your partner(s) in addition to the vaccine. You can never be too careful. I know someone who was fully vaccinated that still managed to get a variant of HPV not covered by the vaccine. Granted, this is super rare. However, it’s still not zero. And trust me

YOU DONT WANT THIS

My brother's girlfriend had HPV, so he went to get himself the HPV vaccine. There is a fee to pay (nothing much, something like €87) but it's completely free if you're in one of the "at risk" groups.

"What does that mean," he asks. "It's free if you're gay," he's told. "Ah. Would I have to like, prove it, or...?" "Just put in a check mark here."

My brother is in no way, shape or form attracted to men, but also he's stingy as it gets. So now he's officially gay. Congrats bro.

[strawberryteabunny]

winter coords from a recent trip I took 🎁

My friend and I went to Staunton, Virginia (with a stop in Alexandria on the way there and back, where these pics were taken) for a short trip right before Christmas! It was a lot of fun, both towns look super cute and we went to Shenandoah National Park, Monticello, and I got to go antiquing!!

1st coord rundown:

JSK: BTSSB Milk-Chan and Snow Strawberry

Apron: handmade

Headdress: Angelic Pretty

Shoes: Cotton Candy Feet

Blouse, socks: offbrand

2nd coord rundown:

OP: IW Tartan Check

Sweater: Liz Lisa

Shoes: Cotton Candy Feet

Socks: offbrand

[leapdayowo]

hey hey :) I need a distraction and ideas for a project

hit me up with some poems you like (bonus points if you explain why (bonus bonus points if they cover topics such as: sapphic love, space, death, vastness of the world, and/or daily life))

[sracha]

save me vampire rosebird…vampire rosebird save meeee 🩸

[ainawgsd]

I think it's time for some "quiet quitting"

[feralthembo]

the general public: oh its ok if it gets more common because it will mutate into less severe strains that wont kill anyone we care about

covid: